A programme aired on the German television channel MDR described how Islam is spreading across Cuba. It said that while there were only a few hundred Cuban Muslims just 6 years ago, they now number in thousands. It also noted that Islam is attracting wide interest from young people in particular. The report went on to say that although Cuban Muslims have no mosques of their own as yet, private homes are being turned into Islamic places of worship.

Yahya Pedro Lazo, the imam of Havana, said he was puzzled in the face of rising number of Muslims and that he had turned his own home into a place of worship. The television report concluded by saying it was disappointment caused by the socialist utopia failing to become a reality that underlies the movement towards Islam in Cuba.